LessonsSupplementary Practice 19: Comparative Rhetorical Analysis of Sūrat al-ʿAṣr and al-TakāthurQuiz

وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالْحَقِّ
And urged one another to the truth. (العصر: 3)

Tawāṣaw is a third-person plural past-tense form from the reciprocal pattern tafāʿul. Here it conveys mutual exhortation: the group’s members counsel one another, rather than one fixed speaker merely addressing passive recipients. Bil-ḥaqq identifies the substance of this counsel.

The rhetoric extends the conditions of escaping loss beyond a private disposition to shared responsibility. This is related to faith and action but cannot be collapsed into either one; the separate clause contributes a distinct social dimension.

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Reciprocity in mutual exhortation

Supplementary Practice 19: Comparative Rhetorical Analysis of Sūrat al-ʿAṣr and al-Takāthur

وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالْحَقِّ
And urged one another to the truth. (العصر: 3)

Tawāṣaw is a third-person plural past-tense form from the reciprocal pattern tafāʿul. Here it conveys mutual exhortation: the group’s members counsel one another, rather than one fixed speaker merely addressing passive recipients. Bil-ḥaqq identifies the substance of this counsel.

The rhetoric extends the conditions of escaping loss beyond a private disposition to shared responsibility. This is related to faith and action but cannot be collapsed into either one; the separate clause contributes a distinct social dimension.